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Samsara is a San Francisco-based IoT company that provides sensors and software to manage vehicle fleets and industrial operations.

The company has said it has over 10,000 customers including: The City of Fort Lauderdale, Dohrn Transfer Company, among others.

It has been widely covered by Forbes, Techcrunch , Fortune , Wall Street Journal , Business Insider , and more.

History
Samsara was founded by CEO Sanjit Biswas and CTO John Bicket in 2015. Both were grad students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Biswas and Bicket had previously founded WiFi-networking company Meraki and sold it to Cisco for $1.2B in 2012.

Overview
Samsara hardware - including sensors, environmental monitors, and cameras - collect data on companies' operations and transmit it via cellular connection to Samsara's cloud.

One of Samsara's first applications of its sensor-based tech involved collecting temperature-related data on food and medicine products being delivered by truck, and alerting companies if the temperature conditions for their products changed outside the desired range.

Samsara’s suite of solutions include vehicle telematics, driver safety, mobile workflow and compliance, asset tracking, and industrial process controls - all in an integrated, open, real-time platform.

Safety features of the fleet management tracking technology include alerts for fast braking, sharp turns, or excessive speeds.

Its camera vision technology detects when a driver is distracted or tailgating by tracking a driver's gaze as well as their following distance and nearby objects.

As of 2020, Samsara's sensors were used by over 10,000 fleets, more than double the year before, benefiting from growth from the broader trucking industry. Customers include food and beverage companies, trucking companies, construction firms, school districts, and towns.

As of 2020, Samsara is valued at $6.3 billion.

Funding
Samsara has raised six rounds of funding since 2015. The companies investors are Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Tiger Global, and Dragoneer. Its latest round of funding, a Series F in September, brought the total amount raised to $530 million for a $6.3 billion valuation.

Awards
In 2019, Samsara was named #3 on LinkedIn’s Top Startup list and was recognized in Forbes’ Cloud 100. The company also won a Gold Stevie Award for Company of the Year in Transportation by the International Business Awards.